WOW! I cannot believe I haven't posted in 4 months!!! Alot has happened in those months!!! It has been probably one of the biggest changes our family has had!! WE MOVED!!! We have prayed for years and years for the Lord to bless us with a country home, and he chose to bless us with everything in a country home that we have asked for and much more!
This post is a testimony to the awesome workings of our Father. It was a beautiful July morning, July 14 to be exact. I will back up a little here. Jason and I had been praying literally for years for our perfect country home. We felt that our Father was urging us to prepare our home this year to sell. We continued to pray and keep our eyes open for a home. On Friday, July 13, Joel and Kori came over and mentioned an Estate Sale where the home was just put up for sale by the owner. On Saturday morning, I woke up Jason and felt an urgency to go over to that house and check out the sale and house. When we pulled up to the house, we walked up and admired the pond and polebarn. We went in and talked to a man inside and asked about the house. It was actually below the price range that we were looking at. It was on 4.3 acres and had a pond and pole barn!!!! He walked us through the house and we fell in love. We knew it was "the house". We went to the truck to decide what to do and per some good counsel, we went straight back in the house and made an offer. Which was accepted by the trustee, Lynn. Then she called the daughters in the house because it was their father that had passed away only months before. The estate money was to go to them. They were to have full say in the people who wanted to buy the house. They listened to us as we told them a little bit about ourselves and then told us that WE were the people that they wanted to own this house. We walked out the door completely amazed at how beautifully God had worked out the details for us. We found out later that the family had received another offer for more money than we offered and with no contingincies (we had to sell our home). The people turned down that offer and many more after it, stating that they found the family for this home! Praise be to God! We then quickly finished getting our house ready to sell, we put the sign in the yard and went on vacation. We were hoping to get some people to come through while we were on vacation, so the house would stay nice and neat for each showing. We had a couple come in on the first day it was up for sale. That night we didn't hear anything, and thought that they weren't interested. The very next morning at 8:30 Steve called and said we have an above asking price offer!!!! Jason went in from vacation and signed papers that very night!!!! Praise be to God!
After we got back from vacation, things really flew into high gear. Paperwork was being sent in and signed, final details were being addressed. Appraisals happened, and came through with no issues, by the hand of God!
After a few weeks, we got word that the people that were buying our house may have an issue with their buyer. We were worried, to say the least! We put it in God's hands and within a couple of days, there was no issue!!!! Fortunately, it made the timing for our finishing paperwork even better though. If there would have been no issue with the other people's paperwork, their stuff would have been finished and processed at least 2 weeks before us, hence we would have had to move out and live somewhere else till we closed on our new one!!! God is good! Now we closed on our Jordan Street home on Sept. 27, 2012 and are scheduled to close on our new COUNTRY home on October 1, 2012!!!
We did close on October 1!!! We moved into our brand new country home on October 6, 2012!!
All Praise and Glory to our Loving, Patient, Mighty God!!!!
